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Congress to Limit Prisoner Suits
Loaded on July 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1993, page 6
A comprehensive civil justice reform bill has been introduced in the Senate by Charles Grassley (R-IA). S.585, the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1993, would establish a modified English rule on attorney fees in federal diversity cases. The amount the loser would have to pay would be limited to the …
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